¹² “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘If any man’s wife ^(A)goes astray and is unfaithful to him,

²⁸ But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will then be free and conceive ^[a]children.

Laws on Morality

¹³ “^(A)If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then ^[a]turns against her, ¹⁴ and charges her with shameful deeds and ^[b]publicly defames her, and says, ‘I took this woman, but when I came near her, I did not find her a virgin,’ ¹⁵ then the girl’s father and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of the girl’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate. ¹⁶ The girl’s father shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man for a wife, but he ^[c]turned against her; ¹⁷ and behold, he has charged her with shameful deeds, saying, “I did not find your daughter a virgin.” But ^[d]this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city. ¹⁸ So ^(B)the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him, ¹⁹ and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give it to the girl’s father, because he ^[e]publicly defamed a virgin of Israel. And she shall remain his wife; he cannot ^[f]divorce her all his days.

²⁰ “But if this ^[g](C)charge is true, that the girl was not found a virgin, ²¹ then they shall bring out the girl to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her ^[h]to death because she has ^(D)committed an act of folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father’s house; thus ^(E)you shall purge the evil from among you.